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AI will provide business users with access to powerful insights before they are available to them, through the use of cognitive interfaces in complex systems, advanced analytics and machine learning technology, says Forrester principal analyst James McCormick in the companysPredictions 2017: artificial intelligence will drive the insights revolutionreport.
For any organisation exploring the possibilities of AI, experts stress how important it is that business stakeholders grasp the breadth and depth of the problem the cognitive system needs to solve and the amount of data and content that needs to be fed into the system to achieve this objective.
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What this means for a retailer such as Net-a-Porter is that there is a continuous stream of cognitive activities that it is able to apply immediately given the technologies it has access to, as well as others that the retailer will grow into as its e-commerce platform is opened up to AI.
It is possible to start small, since the Watson platform is a set of services that you can combine together in many ways. What we will often be looking for is in parts of the business where theres a high reliance on unstructured data and some level of expertise is needed to interpret that data, he says.
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While retailers can amass a vast amount of structured data about their customers through their web browsing habits, what they search for and the kind of products that interest them, Williams says: Cognitive computing is key to unlocking the understanding of unstructured data.
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Chris Williams,IBM Watson, chief architect for Europe, says: Cognitive fits into retail primarily in the area of providing better customer journeys. You can use it to make recommendations and guide people through the buying process by having more expertise embedded into the web or app experience.
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For example, after a shopper enters details on a desired jacket or outdoor activity, XPS will ask questions about factors such as location, temperature or gender to recommend a suitable jacket.
In 2016, outdoor clothing retailer North Face began usingWatson, IBMs cognitive computing platform to power a personalised shopping experience for customers on its website.
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In this respect, he says Watson provides more data points to use in traditional data models.
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According to analyst Forrester, artificial intelligence (AI), big data and analytics will increase businesses access to data, broaden the types of data that can be analysed, and raise the level of sophistication of the resulting insight. For 2017, Forrester expects investment in AI to triple.
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He believes it is essential that business and technical people collaborate closely to solve real business problems and to have success with cognitive computitng.
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An example could be understanding the meaning of text or identifying an image. What is the image showing and what are its attributes which, in a retail environment, ties in with the attributes of the product itself, from simple things such as colour, style and other attributes, he says.
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Forrester expects that AI will drive faster business decisions in marketing, e-ommerce, product management and other areas of the business by helping close the gap from insights to action
The challenge today is that businesses are only now starting to understand how to use big gnitive computingrepresents an altogether different set of information sources that data scientists must grapple with and make sense of.
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Among the ideas was one where the shopper can upload a picture of a celebrity and the system then finds the celebritys outfit or a similar one to purchase.
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If we can automate some of this interpretation then we can make the business process more efficient and help people make better decisions. This is where we see the quick wins in cognitive computing.
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The retailer used Expert Personal Shopper (XPS), a shopping platform from Fluid, which IBM acquired in November 2016.
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In the prototype, we often simulate the integration with a view of plugging in the real data sources further down the line, he says.
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At the end of January 2017, YNAP ran a two-dayhackathon, supported by IBM, to explore the application of AI in retail.
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In Williamss experience, It is possible to have a proof of concept cognitive system up and running in a matter of weeks. But, to get the best from a cognitive system, it is often necessary to bring together multiple source of information, which can take more time.
There are elements of AI that represent a leap in faith, but others elements are proven. We know some of the APIs are pretty mature and have been proven for customers in financial institutes, where they can improve customer care by reading correspondence or they can understand tone of voice to evaluate customer sentiment, he says, but adds that the technology still needs to be adapted for retail.
This begs the question of where traditional business intelligence and analytics gleaned from transactional systems fits in. Williams says: A typical pattern is combining insights from Watson with the more traditional data mining and predictive analytics.
According to a recent survey, in 2016 people made 51% of their purchases online, while in 2015 this percent was lower 48%. Its almost sure that 2017 will be a year with higher rate of online purchases, compared to 2016. And as online shopping continues to become more and more popular, buyers turn into value-seeking consumers who want to find the perfect product or service for their needs as easy as possible. And thanks to cognitive technologies and the information they collect about clients preferences, these systems are able to present customers with the products or services that may best suit their needs. AI turns out to be very useful when it comes to custom programming servicesand it helps developers create a better software in general, so it seems that theres a bright future ahead of it.
The reason Mitchell believes AI will offer a clear advantage over traditional programming techniques is that it offers a way to tackle problems that would be hard to solve any other way. Cognitive computing is evolving quickly, he says.
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Another idea tackles the issue of returns by understanding what clothes will fit, based on a deep understanding of the size of garment from fashion houses.
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Another company looking at exploring the possibilities of cognitive computing and AI in retail is luxury fashion retailerYoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP).
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AI is a change in mindset fromtraditional programming. If programming is about telling the machine what to do through the instructions in the programming language, then the machine must be taught something to get the desired results, says Mitchell.
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There are some other areas, the alchemy areas of Watson such as the automatic storage, sorting and classification of any type of image or any kind of document, which is probably a little more experimental, but its a huge opportunity, he says.
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If, for the sake of argument, traditional programming can provide a 1% improvement, Mitchell believes AI could solve the same problem with a possible overall improvement of 10%.
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There are also opportunities to use it in the back office, such as handling images and other content, which is pretty important in retail, particularly around classifying products and understanding what appeals to people.
Clearly, there is a spectrum of complexity ranging from cognitive projects that can be achieved today to those that are likely to remain science fiction for the foreseeable future.
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For Mitchell, AI represents a huge opportunity for Net-a-Porter, and he believes the IT team is in a strong position to take advantage of it.
Projects often start by providing the AI withdeep domain expertisein one specific area, which can then be expanded out. The other aspect of a cognitive project is how people will interact with the system, the questions they want answered and the type of language they will use.
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Given cognitive retail relies on teaching the machine, he says: You need to have a clear idea of your business problem and you need the time, patience and investment to get the results.
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Roger Mitchell, product and platform director at YNAP, says: AI will undoubtedly change our business.
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The more understanding you have in the system, the better it can be at making recommendations and guiding customers.
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For Williams, this starts with a discovery process to help data scientists uncover data sources they may otherwise have missed. The skills of data science do not go away in the cognitive world. It is about bringing together whats relevant.
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